SharePoint site owners often manage policy documents that expire on specific dates. Without a reminder system, you risk keeping outdated policies live or missing renewal deadlines. This article walks through building an automated reminder flow using Power Automate and SharePoint lists. You will get a practical checklist to set up expiration tracking and email alerts … Read more
When you manage a critical SharePoint list, you need to know who changed what and when. Manually tracking edits is error prone and time consuming. SharePoint does not log list changes to another list by default, but you can build a reliable audit trail using Power Automate. This article explains the best settings to log … Read more
SharePoint list owners often need to track who changed what and when in a list. The built-in version history stores this data but does not make it easy to review changes across multiple items or send alerts for specific edits. You may want to log all changes to a separate list so you can run … Read more
An infinite loop in a Power Automate flow causes the flow to run repeatedly without stopping. This can consume your API request limits, slow down your environment, and trigger unwanted actions. The most common cause is a trigger that re-fires based on an action the flow itself performs. This article explains the typical mistakes that … Read more
An infinite loop in a Power Automate flow tied to a SharePoint list or library can cause thousands of unwanted runs, fill up your audit log, and slow down site performance. The loop happens when a flow triggers on a change, makes another change, and that second change triggers the same flow again, creating a … Read more
When a Microsoft Power Automate flow uses a user account as its connection, that flow breaks if the user leaves the organization or changes their password. You need to move the flow connection to a service account to keep the flow running without interruptions. This article explains the governance checklist for moving a flow connection … Read more
You manage a SharePoint site that uses Power Automate flows. When the person who created a flow leaves your team, the flow may stop working because its connections are tied to that person’s account. Moving a flow’s connections to a service account prevents these failures and keeps your automations running. A service account is a … Read more
When the person who created a Power Automate flow leaves the company or changes roles, the flow stops working because its connections are tied to that user’s account. A service account is a dedicated user account that is not tied to any one employee, so flows linked to it keep running even when staff changes … Read more